In September 2022 a new version of API Platform was released. It comprised some major changes that flipside the development strategy some developers preferred to stick to. In this article Noveo web developer Alexander will describe the new approaches introduced in the v3.
Noveo Senior Web Developer Yan shows a method of reducing the number of SQL queries down to a single one when fetching child entity collections of a hierarchical structure with PHP and Doctrine ORM.
A regular meet up brought together the teams of PHP developers. Google had inspired the discussion by having introduced the library for transmitting structured data - Protocol Buffers (protobuf). This protocol is being actively used in one of the Noveo projects, but, as it turned out, the participants did still learn something new.
